Door alarm Re: quattro Digest, Vol 71, Issue 9

Wed Sep 9 12:08:47 PDT 2009

Between the seat the the outer door pillar where the door latches on the pin when you open it is where it is on our A6
HTH
-Scott by BOSTON quattro123.com

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Today's Topics:

   1. 2000 A4 Avant alarm (Ben)
   2. Open Carfax anyone? (MXHOWES at aol.com)
   3. coolant flushes (Brett Dikeman)
   4. [urq] 83 URQ 10v Backfire in throttle body ? (Ben Swann)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:07:50 -0500
From: "Ben" <blament at gmail.com>
Subject: 2000 A4 Avant alarm
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I still need to get out the VAG-com to verify, but it seems that the
interior motion sensor has gone wonky. Where is this mounted? Tough to
replace? Any been there, done thats?

Peace,
Ben

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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:15:03 EDT
From: MXHOWES at aol.com
Subject: Open Carfax anyone?
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Need to check a Vin #. If you can do it for me, please email.
Thanks,
Jim
mxhowes at aol.com

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:51:26 -0400
From: Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>
Subject: coolant flushes
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So by accident in the course of investigating coolants, I discovered
that Mercedes-Benz strongly encourages coolant flushes, and pretty
extensive ones at that.  Apparently the common procedure is to pour in
a 1:2 or 1:3 mixture of Shout (because it is low suds) and water to
degrease/deoil, and then after that has been flushed, citric acid is
added to remove corrosion and rust, if any.  Someone commented that
citric acid makes for a good metal corrosion remover, attacking
corrosion but not doing much to the base metal.

  You can buy citric acid from the Merc parts counter in half-kilogram
packages, or online from various food-related sites.  Some of the
coolant flushes available in your FLAPS may contain citric acid,
though it sounds like sodium somethingorother has been substituted in
many of them.  I read one post by a chemistry nut which said that
alkali flushes are good for removing deposits left by coolants, and
acid ones for removing corrosion.

It was stressed that without the de-oil/degrease step, the citric acid
step is worthless.

Read up on it yourself, but the only caution I saw was not to run the
engine for long periods of time on the soap or the citric acid, as
there are no lubricants to keep the water pump happy.  Sounded like
most people run the stuff until the engine gets up to full
temperature, then flush extensively.

I was also surprised at the steps required to bleed BMW and Mercedes
engines of air- all sorts of talk of varying throttle levels,
squishing hoses, removing bleed air screws...if memory serves, the
Bentley for the 200q20v doesn't say much except to put the heater on,
park on an incline, and run without the cap on for a while.  Is there
in fact a better way?

Brett

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:22:08 -0400
From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at verizon.net>
Subject: [urq] 83 URQ 10v Backfire in throttle body ?
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Almost all these sort of issues I had with CIS on my WX in UrQ invariably led to 
some
sort of air leak.  I chased many an ignition problem only to find I had some 
sort of CIS
problem that was usually related to a torn hose or leak somewhere.

I really don't recall ever having a real ignition problem despite having fixed 
the
ignition over and over.

Similar with later 5000 turbo quattro - most of the time problems are with some 
air
leak.

Ben

[Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:30:41 -0400
From: Tim Maskus <tmaskus at up.net>
Subject: [urq] 83 URQ 10v Backfire in throttle body ?
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*I have had my 83 sitting for awhile in the driveway, and went out to start it 
and the
battery was dead. Charged it up and moved it into the garage.
Problem is is pops and backfires through the throttle body. I checked the air 
intake
temp sensor and the wires are ok. I cleaned it , but no changes.
Swapped the plugs,rotor, still no changes. Any ideas on where to look for
the problem ?   Thanks - Tim*]

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